Will the flood that caused so much damage in Vermont in July happen again, and what can be done to mitigate the danger? This special festival event will present a short video from Vermont Public depicting the damage of the flood in the Montpelier area and its impact on residents and business owners, followed by […]
Taking a surprising string of tuba thefts at high schools across California as its jumping-off point, The Tuba Thieves embarks on an inventive and engaging cinematic rumination on sound, deafness, and visual language. Open Captions are present throughout, translating language, both spoken and signed, and decoding the soundscape with deft, evocative descriptions. Urban noise, the […]
Like us, you may think that most films are far too long. About Dry Grasses is an exception: it is tense, engrossing, and full of ideas and contradictions, with subtle writing and performances that fully justify its length. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, The Wild Pear Tree) may […]
Also showing: SATURDAY, OCT 28 | 3:45 PM | BB Set in Basque country, this is a most wonderful, sensitive, delicate film, portraying in a complex way relationships among a multigenerational extended family. 20,000 Species of Bees gives each of the (mainly) women in the family enough screen time for us to get to know […]
*** Opening Night film at the Film House *** Tràn Anh Hùng’s (The Scent of Green Papaya) lush gastronomy-themed romance, starring Juliet Binoche and Benoît Magimel won best director at Cannes Film Festival this year and is competing with Anatomy of a Fall for France’s submissions to the 2024 Academy Awards. This sensorial film, set […]
A PROGRAM OF SHORT FILMS Suitable for 5 and up – 60 min total * This event is free for all but advance booking is recommended THE FOX AND THE PIGEON, Canada, Directed by Chelsea van Tol, Tyler Pacana, Matt Walton, Morgan Thompson, Sharon Gabriella, Viktor Ivanovski, Sang Lee The Fox and the Pigeon feel the […]
*SUNDAY, OCT 22 SOLD OUT, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office, 11:15am, one hour before screening.* Also Showing: TUESDAY, OCT 24 | 11:45 AM | FH Note: In 2021, VTIFF hosted a work-in-progress of this film, the filmmakers soliciting feedback from our audience. Two years later, we’re proud to present the finished […]
Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize 2023 at the Berlin International Film Festival Mexican director Lila Avilés’ marvelous second feature unfolds over a single day, as a large extended family throws a raucous, lavish birthday party for one of its own. But seen through the eyes of 8-year-old Sol (sensational newcomer Naima Senties), the joys, […]
*SOLD OUT, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office, 1:30pm, one hour before screening.* Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras are both the directors and subjects of the playful documentary Hummingbirds, which chronicles a summer of singalongs, hangouts, activism, bar-hopping and lots of goofing around in the border town of Laredo, […]
This event is free but advance booking is recommended “An important part of film restoration today is the one most overlooked: subtitling. Subtitles, introduced in the US in the early 1930s, were first added sparsely to foreign films, the belief being that people didn’t go to the movies to read. In recent years, new technology […]
“If I were an architect and I had to build a monument to the cinema,” wrote Jean Renoir, “I would place a statue of Julien Duvivier above the entrance.” Duvivier made 70 films between 1919 and 1967, many of them landmarks of French cinema. His first postwar project, a noir adaptation of Georges Simenon’s “Mr. […]
*SOLD OUT, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office, 6pm, one hour before screening.* Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro), one of the most important contemporary independent filmmakers, conjures a magical, hilarious, romantic adventure set in a rural Italy eternally caught between the ancient and the modern. Josh O’Connor (The Crown) stars as Arthur, […]
Itto (Oumaïma Barid) is pregnant and alone, and all the money from her husband’s rich family can’t seem to save her. In the rural countryside of Morocco an extraterrestrial phenomenon is taking place, and the structures that have governed society and protected the wealthy and privileged matter little now. Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic […]
Also showing: FRIDAY, OCT 27 | 7:15 PM | BB Showing us the human toll of an inhumane system, Tori and Lokita is another social-realist gem from the masters of the form, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Full of heart and indignant fury, the film follows 11-year-old Tori (Pablo Schils) and 16-year-old Lokita (Joely Mbundu), undocumented […]
Mud between the fingers. The murmur of locusts, frogs and crickets. The pregnant air of an oncoming storm. The warmth of summer sun. The caress of a lover’s hand. Rain on the skin. Raven Jackson’s staggering feature debut evokes the texture of memories, as she lyrically yet vividly tells the story of Mack, a woman […]
Also showing: SATURDAY | OCT 28 | 1:15 PM | BB Winner of the Freedom Prize at Cannes’ un Certain Regard, this striking debut feature from Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani deftly balances the personal and political, keeping the characters front and center while illuminating how political strife can make enemies from friends. Taking place just […]
Bas Devos’ latest is set in Brussels, where a Romanian construction worker (Stefan Gota) cooks soup, then meets a Chinese doctoral student (Liyo Gong) who studies mosses. They meet once in a restaurant, then again in the woods. People drop in and out, there’s no real cause and effect, and the movie develops its own […]
*SOLD OUT, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office, 6pm, one hour before screening.* Wenders has crafted a film of deceptive simplicity, depicting the story of Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho), who seems utterly content with the daily routine of his life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. “Like Groundhog Days”, says Wenders, “but […]
Also showing: FRIDAY, OCT 27 | 2:15 PM | BB *Winner -Special Jury Award Encounters Section, Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film, Special Jury Mention Documentary Award – 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. Writer, philosopher, and now filmmaker, Paul B. Preciado’s newest work is poetic in form and function. Hybridizing literary adaptation with modes of […]
Also Showing: SUNDAY, OCT 22 | 12:15 PM | FH Note: In 2021, VTIFF hosted a work-in-progress of this film, the filmmakers soliciting feedback from our audience. Two years later, we’re proud to present the finished film after its premiere earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. All You Hear is Noise centers the […]